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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-agency-and-distribution-act-1864/section-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/27-28/24",
  "legislation_title": "Naval Agency and Distribution Act 1864",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/naval-agency-and-distribution-act-1864",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Power for Admiralty to apply Act to any of Her Majesty’s ships.",
  "text": "Any ship or vessel belonging to Her Majesty, and in actual service, (other than a ship of war,) may be declared by the Admiralty to be a ship of war for the purposes of this Act; and all the provisions of this Act shall thereupon apply to such ship or vessel, and shall continue to so apply as long as she then continues in actual service, but no longer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 3 extended by S.I. 1972/971, art. 4, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/27-28/24/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:40.273918+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}